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Eric Michael Garcia
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Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d
I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic.
Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...
www.independent.co.uk
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We talk a lot about how the tech bros moved right because of Covid. The Epstein files showed elites HATED #MeToo and as @lebassett.bsky.social has written, Trump's election was very much an attempt to exact revenge on #MeToo
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
👀 AOC uses part of what she told The Munich Security Conference in her latest fundraising email, saying "we have to have a working class centered politics if we are going to succeed, and also if we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism."
I think that encapsulates much of the betrayal that the working class in the United States have felt. But we have come a long way since then — and we have a long way to go. The United States right now is experiencing a political pendulum. And really the party that is seen most as betraying the working-class is the governing party. Right now, that happens to be the Republican majority. What we are seeing over the last eight years has been a growing recognition of those past errors, that include military interventionism in the Iraq War, a recognition of NAFTA as a failed policy for many rural and working class communities. Now I think we are moving in this direction of increased recognition that we have to have a working class centered politics if we are going to succeed, and also if we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism, which also provides political siren calls to allure people into finding scapegoats to blame for rising economic inequality, both domestically and globally
February 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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AOC and Gretchen Whitmer on a panel at the Munich Security Conference. We all this foreshadowing.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a white woman in a plaid overcoat and slacks, seated in an oval chair sipping a water bottle as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a younger Latina in a red suit with her hair pulled back, speaks in a chair. Behind them are people in the audience. They both have headset microphones.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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The Friday Breakdown: Typically when a politician gives a speech, they are laying out their worldview and larger ideology. It's often a tea leaf they want to run for president. So is AOC teasing a run for president? Or something more important?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
AOC wants the Democrats to take her seriously. Why Munich could launch her rebirth
Once seen as an insurgent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a team player for the Democratic Party, Eric Garcia writes. Now, she wants to remake what that team looks like
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Trump threatens to present an executive order on voter ID if it can’t pass Congress
We cannot let the Democrats get away with NO VOTER I.D. any longer. These are horrible, disingenuous CHEATERS. They have all sorts of reasons why it shouldn’t be passed, and then boldly laugh in the backrooms after their ridiculous presentations. If it weren’t such a serious matter, it would be considered a TOTAL JOKE! No Voter I.D. is even crazier, and more ridiculous, than Men playing in Women’s Sports, Open Borders, or Transgender for Everyone. Republicans must put this at the top of every speech — It is a CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND! Even Democrat Voters agree, 85%, that there should be Voter I.D. It’s only the Political “Leaders,” Crooked Losers like Schumer and Jeffries, that have no shame, and explain why it’s “racist,” and every other thing that they can think of. This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW! If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order. I hope the Supreme Court realizes, as they “painstakingly” review the very simple topic of Country Saving Tariffs (Those same Tariffs that have been used, by other Countries, against the U.S.A. to drain it of its Treasure and Security — for many years!), and all sorts of other things, that are making our Country Rich, Powerful, and Safe Again, that these Corrupt and Deranged Democrats, if they ever gain power, will not only be adding two States to our roster of 50, with all of the baggage thereto, but will also PACK THE COURT with a total of 21 Supreme Court Justices, THEIR DREAM, which they will submit easily and rapidly when they immediately move to terminate the Filibuster, probably in their first week, or sooner. Our Country will never be the same if they allow these demented and evil people to knowingly, and happily, destroy it. Thank you for your attention to this matter — SAVE AMERICA! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
February 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Again, this is for military families in Fort Bragg. This is ostensibly a military event and therefore nonpartisan. (Also, Braxton Bragg was a terrible general, even by Confederacy standards).
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"

(note the total silence from the crowd)
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
For a guy who hates autism, this man really needs a social filter.
alcappuccinoit.bsky.social Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 1d
I think RFK Jr. probably snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat as recently as 2 PM.
February 13, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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mollytaft.com
the Heated Rivalry fandom has done a really remarkable speedrun from a celebration of a fluffy, sexy gay show to calling cast members pedophiles & journalists "klan members" (yes, really) — v excited about @wired.com's blow-by-blow feat interviews w fans on the front lines
The ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fandom Is Tearing Itself Apart
The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Another sign Trump is becoming Joe Biden: He's embracing slopulism. He now wants Republicans to curb institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Congressional housing deal faces new hurdle as Trump pushes investor ban
The issue is another area in which the president’s populist ideas are clashing with GOP free-market orthodoxy.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Watching the Munich Security Conference and Why does this image look like AOC is denouncing the Galactic Empire's massacre on Ghorman?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Latina woman in a burgundy suit, seated holding a microphone with a microphone headset. Her chair is white.
February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
just remembered that recently out of the blue my 7-year-old asked “dad, what was the collapse of the soviet union?”
February 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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nbcnews.com
Billionaire Leslie Wexner has been ordered to testify in a lawsuit brought by a group of former Ohio State University students who say they were sexually assaulted decades ago by a campus doctor and their alma mater did nothing to stop him.
Judge orders Leslie Wexner to testify in Ohio State abuse survivors' lawsuit
Wexner, who was on the OSU board of trustees when Dr. Richard Strauss preyed on students, is also scheduled to testify before Congress about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
nbcnews.to
February 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
February 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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I'll miss working with Justin, but this is great news for @zeteo.com. @justinbaragona.bsky.social is a fantastic colleague.
zeteo.com Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15d
Zeteo has new contributors!

@justinbaragona.bsky.social is back with his newsletter, ‘Ragebait,’ i.e his take on the right-wing media’s latest manufactured outrage.

Trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has saved lives in Gaza, will be sharing his experience documenting a genocide in real-time.
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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eliasisquith.blog
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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I was halfway right.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Dec 29
Trump tries to nominate Hassett as Fed Chair and fails. So he picks Warsh instead who sails through.
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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I am once again reminding people that gerrymandering does not affect statewide races.
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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For all of MAGA's boasting of bringing back American manufacturing and "manly jobs," Trump 2.0 saw one industry grow more than others: caring for older Americans.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Underpaid and under pressure: The eldercare workforce leading America's job growth
The fastest-growing U.S. jobs are in homes and nursing facilities, caring for an aging population. But worker shortages and policy threaten the pipeline.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Per the CBO on tariffs : "the net effect of tariffs is to raise U.S. consumer prices by the full portion of the cost of the tariffs borne domestically (95 percent)." www.cbo.gov/system/files...
www.cbo.gov
February 13, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Hope Chris Coons has a nice Valentine's Day
February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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wsj.com
Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Merz offers up an unmistakable warning to the US in his MSC speech: Your power is not what it once was. China is gaining ground. The strategy set out in the NSS will accelerate this trend. If you go it alone, you will run up against your limits. Europe rejects MAGA free speech and tariffs.
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Noem and Lewandowski had demanded that ICE capture its arrests on video for social media. But Noem and Lewandowski berated Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, for videos in Minnesota showing federal officers tangling with protesters. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM